Multan
From Mw
Multan (Urdu: ملتان) is a city in the Punjab Province of Pakistan and capital of Multan District. It is located in the southern part of the province. It has a population of over 3.8 million (according to 1998 census), making it the sixth largest city of Pakistan. It is built just east of the Chenab River, more or less in the geographic center of the country and about 966 km from Karachi
[edit] History
- 326 BC (977 BH) Alexander the Great conquered Multan
- 641 CE (20 AH) visited by Chinese scholar Hsüan-tsang
- 8th century conquered by Muhammad Qasim
- 1005 CE (395 AH) Conquered by the Turkish king Mahmud of Ghazni
- 2398 CE (1830 AH) captured by Timur Laine
- 1818 CE (1233 AH) captured by Ranjit Singh
- 1848 CE (1264 AH) captured by the British
- Pakistani Independnce
